Return-path: Received: from hofr.at ([212.69.189.236]:59440 "EHLO mail.hofr.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751201AbbCKTP3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:15:29 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:15:26 +0100 From: Nicholas Mc Guire To: Johannes Berg Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire , Kalle Valo , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Bj??rn Mork , Jeff Haran , Pat Erley , ath10k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2] ath10k: move code from parameter list into a function Message-ID: <20150311191526.GA24455@opentech.at> (sfid-20150311_201550_067104_10B1A7D2) References: <1426100519-20636-1-git-send-email-hofrat@osadl.org> <1426101010.1904.9.camel@sipsolutions.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1426101010.1904.9.camel@sipsolutions.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 15:01 -0400, Nicholas Mc Guire wrote: > > Putting code into the parameter list of wait_event_timeout() might be > > legal C-code but not really readable - the "inline" code is simply > > moved into a function and that passed to wait_event_timeout() as the > > condition. > > Arguably, that's even more unreadable since if you don't know this macro > well you might assume the function is called only once, which is clearly > not true... > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to this change, but if you ask me > it's not completely clear that this makes it more readable. > I'm not into this long enough to say what is better and if the consensus is that this patch is no more readable than the original code and no more maintainable either, then it is not worth the effort. so thanks for your comments! thx! hofrat